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case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled(adj)

used of persons; emotionally hardened

"faced a case-hardened judge"

tempered, treated, hardened, toughened(adj)

made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

"a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"

hardened(adj)

protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

"hardened missile silos"

enured, inured, hardened(adj)

made tough by habitual exposure

"hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett

hardened, set(adj)

converted to solid form (as concrete)

able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure

hardened from years of deprivation and grief, the man regarded the house fire as just another misfortune in a life filled with them

sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

hardened cynics regarded those TV shows as being anything but reality-based

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